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Yes, Your Country Does Need You
Fr Mark Elvins on the moral rtsponsibility of the church to pioneer voluitary work Viewpoint THE PRINCE of Wales in June 1975 said that voluntary service is an essential clement......
Remembering Zion
OF ALL tie readings from the Old Testament, there are few which are tsâ– charged with emotion as the opening words of Psalm 137 "Beside he streams of Babylon we satand wept at......
Margaret Pole Dignity In Death
I AM surprised that you perpetuate the old story that Blessed Margaret Pole refused to kneel for the headsman and was chased around the scaffold ("Four times around the......
Peter The Rock
AS AN ordinary Catholic, not one who would profess to he a theologian or even a scholar, I was saddened to read of Fr Kevin Kelly's support for the views of Fr Charles Curran,......
The Problems Of A `second Relationship'
I AM somewhat puzzled by Mrs Cecilia Hull's letter, September 5, which seems to imply that being divorced necessarily means being involved in a "second relationship". It is......
Our Lady's Caring Heart
LAST YEAR my husband and I returned to England with our three teenaged children, after having lived in Canada for many years. Our middle son requires special education and so......
Man's Inhumanity
AT THE SCHOOL which Terence Sheehy and I both attended during the Spanish civil war, the pupils were supplied gratis with glossy magazines produced by the Francoite press......
The Bishop Of Berlin , Steadfast
YOUR LEADER "Love, the healer of divisions", August 29, shows so little love or even understanding for the Cardinal Bishop of Berlin and the great and holy Pope Pius XII, that......
Active Vocations
REGARDING the priesthood Fr Clifton wishes it to be made known that although there are no seminarians at present in training there are a couple of men from Colliers Wood in......
Only Spain's Nationalists Honoured
REGARDING Mrs E Fernandez Williams' attack on me, August 29, if it is the case that the Valley of the Fallen does indeed commemorate all the dead of the Spain's civil war, then......
Communion
with Christ A CORRESPONDENT, August 22, described the Anglican Eucharist as "a case of a layman merely going through an empty ritual, using bread and wine". This is not merely......
Planning Their Own Exams
YOU REPORT, August 29, that the Midlands Examining Board has rejected as "too confessional" the syllabus drawn up by Maryvalc Catechetical Centre and approved by the Birmingham......
A Wary Eye On Satan
I READ with interest, August 22, a report of Pope John Paul's warning to "beware of the devil". I feel it is very appropriate to be reminded of the existence of the devil and......